"How to Fight Poverty":The Evolution of Western Poverty Governance Discourse and Its Reflections
Western societies have long been concerned with the issue of poverty,proposing a variety of com-plex and diverse strategies for poverty governance.In the pre-modern era,poverty governance methods evolved from admonishment and expulsion in ancient Greece and Rome,to charitable relief by the church and government in the Middle Ages,and then to forced labor and economic development follow-ing the Enlightenment.Upon entering modern society,scholars have offered various prescriptions for poverty governance from different perspectives,such as resource-based theories,capability and rights theories and cultural psychology theories.Through observing the diachronic evolution of Western pover-ty governance discourse,it reveals that alleviating poverty is akin to treating an illness:as the illness changes,so too must the medicine,adapting to the circumstances of the time.China has historically ref-erenced and absorbed beneficial elements from Western poverty governance discourse in its anti-pover-ty practices,and this process of learning and adaptation will continue in the post well-off era.
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